RENO, Nev. — A 26-year-old Lake Tahoe man has been charged with murder in the strangulation of a Sparks woman whose body was found near a crashed car on the Mount Rose Highway in the middle of the night in September. Alexandrew Vail of Kings Beach, California was being held...
Lake Tahoe To Shut Down Under Stay-at-Home Order
[aggregation-styles] FOX40 Sacramento & KRON-TV TAHOE, Calif. (KRON) — Lake Tahoe is closing to visitors Thursday night under the regional stay-at-home order announced Wednesday. The Greater Sacramento region fell below 15% ICU capacity on Wednesday, triggering the order. ICU capacity fell to 14.3% as of Wednesday morning, the state announced....
Forest Service OKs Expanded Reno Ski Resort, Skier Bridge
RENO, Nev. — The Forest Service has approved the expansion of a ski resort on a national forest between Reno and Lake Tahoe, including a skier bridge over a highway as part of a package that also bans commercial development in areas cherished by conservationists and back-country enthusiasts. The expansion...
Chain Controls Lifted on I-80 After Snow Snarls Traffic
RENO, Nev. — Another round of snow snarled traffic with more than a dozen crashes on slippery roads in the Reno-Sparks area and triggered chain controls much of Tuesday on Interstate 80 in the Sierra. The Nevada Highway Patrol reported at least 18 traffic accidents during the morning commute in...
Meteorologist Says 209 MPH Tahoe Gust Likely a Mistake
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — A gust of 209 mph recorded atop a California peak over the weekend was likely not a state wind record but a mistake resulting from a faulty sensor, a meteorologist said Monday. The wind recording was made Sunday morning by an instrument at 9,186 feet on...
Potential Record 209 MPH Gust Hits Tahoe Peak
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE — A gust of 209 mph was recorded atop a Lake Tahoe area peak Sunday, a potential record that wowed forecasters monitoring a cold storm moving south through the state. The blast of wind was captured around 7:45 a.m. by an instrument at 9,186 feet on Kirkwood...
Dry January Puts a Hurt on California Snowpack
PHILLIPS STATION — California's weather turned largely dry in January and left the water content of the Sierra Nevada snowpack below average for this time of year, state officials said after measurements Thursday. The retrograde movement of the winter precipitation outlook followed a stormy December that gave the mountain range...
Sheriff: 1 Dead, 1 Seriously Injured in Lake Tahoe Avalanche
At least one person has died and another was seriously injured Friday in an avalanche at a Northern California ski resort, the Placer County Sheriff's Office said in a tweet. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned of dangerous avalanche conditions for all elevations, stating on its website that there was “a...
137 MPH Wind Gust at Tahoe Resort; Chains on I-80 in Sierra
RENO, Nev. — Chains or snow tires are required on much of U.S. Interstate 80 in the Sierra and most highways around Lake Tahoe after a winter storm packing snow and winds in excess of 130 mph blew through the region. A weather advisory for the Reno-Tahoe area expired at...
December Storms Deliver Good Start for Sierra Snowpack
Electronic readings from 130 stations throughout California indicate that the state's snow water equivalent is 9.3 inches. That's 90% of the Jan. 2 average. “While the series of cold weather storms in November and December has provided a good start to the 2020 snowpack, precipitation in Northern California is still...